Critics Quotes

I never wish for critics.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.